re: #331 No Malarkey!

The pandemic won’t end until enough people have acquired immunity through infection or vaccination. And it’s going to take a high percentage since Delta is so contagious. We need vaccine mandates to prevent a terrible amount of death and suffering to get there, but the political will doesn’t exist. So it’s going to have to be employer, bottom line driven. Employees needing weeks of extremely expensive medical care before dying are bad for quarterly profits.

The problem, of course, is that infection and even vaccination do not necessarily provide immunity. Particularly as the virus continues to mutate due to the massive number of infections and re-infections.